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01/21/2025

Don't just stick your tomato plants upright in the ground. Lay them on their side and bury the whole stem. This sideways tomato planting trick stimulates huge root growth and gives your tomato plants the foundations to produce giant yields. Before you do it, there are some things you need to get right

01/21/2025

6 Natural Tomato Protection Methods Every Gardener Should Know! 🍅🌱
🌿 Ash-Infused Water: Mix 500g ash with boiling water, add rainwater, and use to water tomatoes.
🌿 Nettle Solution: Soak fresh nettles in lukewarm water for 7-10 days and use to water tomatoes.
🌿 Brewer’s Yeast Formula: Mix sugar and yeast, boil, dilute, and water tomato bases after a week.
🌿 Milky Solution: Mix milk, water, and iodine tincture; water plants for 7-10 days.
🌿 Baking Soda Spray: Dissolve baking soda in water and use to water tomatoes or sprinkle ash on leaves.
🌿 Banana Peel Enrichment: Grind and spread banana peels near roots for magnesium and potassium boost.
Protect your tomatoes naturally and sustainably! Happy gardening! 🍅🌱

01/21/2025

DIY Raised Garden Bed Ideas That Made Out Of Easy-to-find Materials

01/21/2025

Creative Raised Garden Bed Ideas

01/21/2025

Potatoes are so easy to grow in containers! Here are the best tips!
1. Understanding the Potato Lifecycle: Recognizes the growth process from sprouting 'eyes' to forming tubers underground.
2. Choosing the Right Potato Variety: Emphasizes selecting early, mid-season, or late varieties based on regional climate and growth periods.
3. Prepping Seed Potatoes: Details the 'chitting' process in light and moderate temperatures to encourage sprouts before planting.
4. Potato Planting Time: Specifies ideal planting times based on local frost dates to prevent damage to potatoes.
4. Selecting Containers: Describes suitable containers like grow bags and emphasizes adequate drainage.
5. Planting and Soil Preparation: Guides on soil layering, positioning sprouted potatoes, and ongoing soil coverage to promote growth.
6. Watering and Fertilization: Discusses maintaining moisture through drip lines and using organic fertilizers suited for acidic soil.
7. Sunlight Requirements: Advises on positioning containers to receive at least 6 hours of daily sunlight.
8. Harvesting Potatoes: Differentiates between harvesting times for new and mature potatoes and offers tips for storage.

01/21/2025

How and Why to Grow Cucumbers in a Herringbone Pattern for a Bigger Harvest🥒
1️⃣ Why Use the Herringbone Pattern?
This layout optimizes space, airflow, and light exposure, reducing diseases and boosting growth. It also makes harvesting easier as the plants spread out uniformly.
2️⃣ How to Set Up a Herringbone Pattern:
Prepare the Bed: Create a long central trench in your garden bed, enriched with compost and well-draining soil.
Planting Layout: Position cucumber seeds or seedlings diagonally along both sides of the trench, forming a "V" shape. Space plants about 12-18 inches apart.
Add Support: Install trellises or stakes at angles to encourage vines to climb outward and upward, following the pattern.
3️⃣ Care Tips for Maximum Yield:
Water regularly to keep soil moist but not soggy.
Fertilize with a balanced mix every 2-3 weeks.
Prune excess foliage to maintain airflow and focus energy on fruit production.
This simple technique creates healthier plants and higher cucumber yields in limited garden spaces! 🌿

01/21/2025

How to Make Mother-in-Law's Tongue Bloom and Keep Its Scent Longer
1. Location and light: Place the plant near a window with good lighting. If the plant is upright, it needs more light. It grows slowly, with only three to four new leaves a year.
2. Watering: Water only when the substrate is completely dry. In winter, water only twice a month to avoid rot.
3. Fertilize: Apply fertilizer to flowering plants once a month in late spring and early summer, until fall. This will help produce vanilla-scented flowers.
4. Pruning: Do not cut the tips of the leaves. Remove only dry leaves to prevent disease.
5. Transplant: Change the pot for a larger one in early spring if the plant needs it. Use clay pieces at the bottom for good drainage.
Benefits of Sansevieria:
• Purifies the air by eliminating toxins such as benzene, toluene, xylene and formaldehyde.
How to make a special fertilizer:
1. Use the peels of three lemons, without pulp.
2. Wash and dry the peels.
3. Cut them into pieces.
4. Distribute the pieces on the soil of the pot.
5. Water with lemon water or plain water.
6. Place the plant in a cool location with indirect light.
7. Use this fertilizer once a month.
Lemon benefits:
• Repels pests.
• Acts as a natural herbicide and liquid fertilizer.
• Prevents fungi and nourishes the roots.
How to prepare banana water:
1. Place banana peels in a glass glass.
2. Fill the glass with water and cover.
3. Let it sit overnight.
4. Use this water every 15 days to water the plant.

01/20/2025

DIY Raised Garden Bed Ideas. It’s easy to care for, it’s convenient to trim your mustache, it doesn’t freeze

01/20/2025

Easy Ways To Grow Your Tomatoes

01/20/2025

01/20/2025

Best Vegetable Garden Layouts To Try

01/20/2025

Here’s a simplified guide to grow mango trees from cuttings in water:

1. Prepare the Cuttings: Select healthy, green cuttings and trim them just below a node (the part where the leaf attaches to the stem).

2. Submerge in Water: Place the cuttings in a container of water, ensuring that the nodes are fully submerged.

3. Light Placement: Position the container in a spot with bright but indirect sunlight.

4. Change Water Regularly: Refresh the water every few days to prevent stagnation and to encourage root growth.

5. Transplant: Once the roots are several inches long, transplant the cuttings into a pot filled with well-draining potting mix to continue growing.

01/20/2025

Achieve a Bountiful Eggplant Harvest with These Masterful Growing Tips
1. Choose the Right Variety : Select eggplant varieties suitable for your climate and gardening conditions.
2. Start from Seeds : Begin sowing seeds indoors 8-10 weeks before transplanting.
3. Prepare the Soil : Ensure the soil is well-draining with a pH between 5.5 and 7.
4. Transplanting Tips : Transplant seedlings after the last frost ensuring they are hardened off.
5. Sun and Space : Plant eggplants in full sun with at least 18 inches between plants.
6. Water and Mulch : Maintain consistent moisture and mulch to retain soil moisture.
7. Support and Prune : Use stakes or cages for support and prune regularly for better growth.
8. Pest Management : Monitor for pests like flea beetles and use appropriate control methods.
9. Fertilize Wisely : Fertilize with a balanced fertilizer reducing nitrogen once flowering begins.
10. Harvesting : Harvest eggplants when they are 4-6 inches long and cook promptly for best flavor.

01/20/2025

10 Genius Gardening Hacks Using Baking Soda – Your Garden’s Best Ally
1. Natural Fungicide: Mix baking soda with water and liquid soap to spray on plants and combat fungal diseases like powdery mildew.
2. W**d Killer: Directly apply baking soda on garden weeds to kill them without harming surrounding plants.
3. Pest Deterrent: A mixture of baking soda and flour can deter pests like cabbage worms and aphids when dusted on plants.
4. Soil Amendment: Baking soda can be used to neutralize overly acidic soil, improving the environment for plant growth.
5. Tomato Sweetener: Sprinkle baking soda around tomato plants to decrease soil acidity, resulting in sweeter tomatoes.
6. Compost Enhancer: Speed up the composting process by making the environment more alkaline with baking soda.
7. Odor Absorber: Neutralize odors in areas like compost bins by sprinkling baking soda.
8. Tool Cleaner: Clean gardening tools by scrubbing them with a baking soda paste to remove dirt and rust.
9. Seed Germination: Enhance seed germination by soaking seeds in a baking soda solution before planting.
10. Ant Repellent: Deter ants by creating barriers with baking soda around plants or ant trails.

01/20/2025

I woke up to nearly 2 dozen just hateful messages calling us greedy or “idiotic” as one bitter soul called us over selling the promix bagged soil for $39.99 with free shipping. Mostly over the cost and how it is “cheaper” and “half cost” in local stores. I am sorry, but that is the point. Those local stores aren’t shipping it, if they did it would be the same. We can’t purchase it even at wholesale prices and then ship it, for anything close to $25 which is what it retails for. Anyone shipping it will be charging $40-70. We bundled shipping and product cost together so the cost is more digestible.

So what about us? $19.99 in our store in St Clair. Or $39.99 with free shipping.

I feel nowadays it is easy to assume businesses are greedy or profiteering. And a lot are, but in a free market you can’t get away with it because someone will find a cheaper alternative. We have explored the cheapest possible options and are offering it at the lowest price you will find anywhere. Lastly, there is our track record. We have never ever been greedy with pricing. So that settles it hopefully. If you are going to be mean and nasty over us trying to supply people with the best products around, just unfollow and move on.

01/20/2025

Insane deal alert!!! I just saw these at HD and had to share. Drill some holes in the bottom and fill with soil and you have a huge container that can grow 3 tomatoes or 4 peppers or 3 potatoes or even 8 heads of lettuce!

01/20/2025

Our Egyptian walking onions don’t seem to mind the cold! If you’ve never planted these, you definitely should! We get a perpetual harvest of green onions nearly year round!

01/20/2025

I saw this picture on Instagram and couldn’t help but to be a bit emotional! We started selling seeds in 2012, so this was 4 years into figuring out how to make all this work. We still had plastic bags, we were using printed address labels, and we were selling just 30 varieties. Fast forward 9 years and we have grown so much and learned so much. But our roots stay the same. A passion for seeing you enjoy your garden to the fullest. ❤️